This is a heads-up on ICRA(International Conference of Robotics and Automation) 2010′s robot manipulation challenge. Click here for the full IEEE article regarding the ICRA challenge.

Matei Ciocarlie, a researcher at Willow Garage is helping to organize the event, and here’s a picture from IEEE of what our dishwashers will start interacting with in the future.

A special report on robotics is available on IEEE Spectrum.
With its eight slides and three segments of audio, the special report gives you an overview of what’s toda’s cutting-edge in the field of robotics (including Dr. Ishiguro’s androids, iCub funded by EURON, and PR2 from Willow Garage).
Please visit IEEE Spectrum for full access of the special report.